Example sentences of "man [vb past] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BLIND man fought off a bull terrier that attacked his guide dog — by jamming his fist down its throat and smacking it between the eyes . |
| 2 | The man moved off to summon his superiors who , in turn , would summon the police . |
| 3 | Earl Siward snapped his fingers , and the man darted off . |
| 4 | But while the woman , 46-year-old Margaret Presley , of Portsmouth , Hants , was rushed inside — drip-ping with blood from serious head injuries and a broken shoulder — the man drove off without giving any details . |
| 5 | The jury in the David Nock murder trial has been told that the accused man showed off the alleged murder weapon to his workmates . |
| 6 | The man rang off but was soon contacted by officers from the force 's Firearms Unit who ordered him out of the building on Crosshall Street . |
| 7 | However , a southbound freight would often be heard departing from Staveley perhaps ten minutes before the signal man pulled off the concrete post LNER signal . |
| 8 | The man pulled off his jeans and stood up . |
| 9 | The man broke off with a shudder . |
| 10 | Again the gaunt man broke off . |
| 11 | That man fell off his bicycle , because … |
| 12 | One type of error was to complete the sentence by referring to an effect instead of a cause , for example : 5 *That man fell off his bicycle , because he broke his leg . |
| 13 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 14 | The owner picked up a metal rolling pin , whereupon the man took off his metal studded belt . |
| 15 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 16 | The man went off , muttering to himself . |
| 17 | The man went off in his brown dressing-gown . |
| 18 | The little man tore off his forage cap and twisted it in his hands . |
| 19 | The man ran off towards the nearby Co-op store . |
| 20 | The other car was ultimately forced to stop , and a young man ran off into a field . |
| 21 | The man ran off towards Banbury railway station , where police say they later found a weapon hidden in the men 's toilet . |
| 22 | The man ran off into nearby fields and stabbed PC Lucey in the eye when he followed . |
| 23 | The other man ran off but police officers caught him . |
| 24 | Man ran off after incident in Laindon , Essex . |
| 25 | The man rattled off some instructions to Franco who retreated to the end of the bar and started hunting through the bottles on a particularly high shelf . |
| 26 | The man shambled off into the house , and the rest of us picked our way across the front garden . |
| 27 | The man hurried off . |
| 28 | Muttering , ‘ Where 's Bennett , for God 's sake ? ’ the man hurried off . |
| 29 | A MAN sparked off a full scale alert last night after he refused to be rescued as he drifted a mile and a half off shore in the North Sea in only a five foot toy dinghy . |
| 30 | A MAN sparked off a full-scale alert last night after he refused to be rescued as he drifted a mile and a half off shore in the North Sea in only a five foot toy dinghy . |